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`Intimation.

Powell's

CARPETS

EXQUISITE

DESIGNS

in

Axminster,

Wilton,

and.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH SATURDAY MARCH 20 1909.

Intimations.

GREEN ISLAND, GEMENT COMPA

LIMITED.

PORTLAND CEMENT.

In Casks, of 375 Dr. net 85.50 per Cask ax Factory. In Bags of

go br.net $8.45 per Big

ex Factory

SHEWAN TOMES, &'0...' General Managon;

Homebrộc 15th August, rods.

0. C. MOOSA,

136

„1 & 8; D'AGUILAR STREET.

NOVELTIES OF THE SEASON.

Trimmed and Untrimmed HATS, KIBBONS, FLOWERS,

FEATHERS, &c, &o.

LACE SCARES, MOTOR VEILS

"VARIOUS COLORS,

-MOUSQUETÉIRË GLOVES

金牌

WHITE, BLACK & COLORS,

WO LEN DLLAINES, NUNSVEIL

INGS, VOILES, &c. &c."

LADIES' and CHILDREN'S

UNDERCLOTHINGS.

Samples on application, Port orders carefully executed:

Mom, kamu, t0th September. Conf.

Brussels. Build and Design

RUGS

To Match.

Seamless

Squares

A Special

Feature.

POWELL'S

ALEXANDRA":

BUILDINGS,

and

28, Queen's Road,

Monclerag, zath Ma mb, egog,

Coast

Rubber Tyre

RICKSHAWS

Standard make

order.

STOCK

or to

WHERE WOMEN: WORKI

COMMISSION'S BURVEY OF LABOUR FIELD.

Among the many interesting subjects with which the report of the Royal Commission on the Poor Law deals is that of the displacement of male workers by women.

THE SHANGHAI ICE, COLD STOR AGE AND REFRIGERATION. COMPANY, LTD.

The lasth ordinary meeting of the above named company was held at the Chamber of The excessive, sub-division of labour and Commerce rooms, Shangbal, on 15th Instant, #pecialisation of machinery, it is stated, favours there being present Messrs. A. R. Lowe, Chair the intrusion of women into many tradesman J. Grant Mackenzie, John Prentice and aliberto occupied by men during which W. S. Barns, Director') ]. H. Usborne, A. "economic transformation" there is naturally Samson, T. Koch and W. B Buyers, where much dislocation of male labour, tending, to holdara." the sinking of the skilled male workmanisto the unskilled class it appea

"Even in some branches of the engineering trade," says the report, women are now find Ing employment. In the Westinghouse and other large works round Manchester women bolb married and single, have been introduced in large numbers, to lead the light drilling machines at which the trade unloas used to find employment for men getting on in year and unable to take heavy work."/_

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TRADES WHICH EMPLOY WOMEN,

Intimations,

THE TRUTH, ALWAYS, "Whan you are in doubi tell the truth.27 It was an experienced old diplomat who said this to a beginner ja the work. It may pass in some things, but not in business. mud and decep- tion are often profitable so long as concealed; yet detection is certain sooner or later, then comes the smash-up and the punishment. The best and safest way is to tell the truth all the time. Thus you make friends that stick by you, shillings to the pound everywhere your goods and a reputation that is always worth twenty

affirm, that it is on this basis that the world are offered for sale. We are able modestly to wide popularity of

'Malt and'

Consignees,

MOGUL" LINE OF STEAMERS

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

STEAMSHIP"LOTHIAN."

FROM GLASGOW, LIVERPOOL AND

STRAITS

CONSIGNEES of Cargoare hereby intermed

that all Goods are, being landed at their Kowloon Wharf, and Godown Company, at risk into the Godowns of the Hongkong and

delivery may be obtained. Kowloon, whence and/or from the wharves

No Claims will be admitted after the Goods

have left the Godowns, and all Goods remain subject to rent. 'ing undalivored after the 23rd instant will be

All broken, chafed, and damaged Goods are to be left in the Godowas, where they will be examined on the aird instant, at 3 P.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effected: Bills of Lading will be countersigned by

DODWELL & CO., LIMITED," Agents. Hongkong, 16th March, 1909.

[268]

The Chairman sald:-Gentlemen, the time has gone by for which this meating was called' and a quorum being present we will proceed with our business. Upless there is any object tion, I will aske Mr. Thomas Koch to act an secretary of the meeting and to read the notice tests. The people have discovered that this

WAMPOLE'S PREPARATION convening the same. The report and accounts medicino is exactly what it is said to be, and having been in your bande some days we will, that it does what we have always declared itaented to the Undersigned on or before the All Claims against the Steamer must be pre with your permission, take them as road. Be-will do. Its nature also has been frankly made 16th April, or they will not be recognized fore I ask you to approve and pass them I bave known. It in palatable as honey and contalos a low remarks to sky-The result of aor work-all the nutritive and curative properties of Pure Outside the traditional "women's trades," all of us regret the poor showing that the ac livers, combined with the Compound Syrup of ing for the last year is not satisfactory and wo Cod Liver Oil, extracted by us from fresh cad we find women largely, sometimes exclusively, counts present. You will most of you up Hypophosphites and the Extracts employed in the making of saddlery and bar-doubtedly have noticed, of late in the reports Wild Cherry A combination of supreme slippers, gloves, cocos, confection of the speaches of chairmen of various indus. excellence and medicinal merit. Nothing has Jam, pickles, mustard, aerated waters, straw trial companies that they refer to their poor been so successful in Anemia, Scrofula, Bron plait and batt-rubber and gutta parchs goods, stationary, elastic web, corsets, cutlery and its owing to the very general and almost chitis, influenza, Loss of Fish and Wasting universal depression of all branches of trade, Diseases, Weakness and Low Nervous Tone, scissors, gold, silver, white mate, and pore or words to that effect. Gentlemen, we do not and all complaints caused by Impute Blood. goods, electro-plate, pottery, chemists' prepara claim that reason for the poor results of our tians, explosives, and in printing, dyeing, and

working this year, though, it is quite possible cleaning.

we may have suffered slightly from these car. Well, gentlemen, if you will allow me to divert for "faw-moments- I would like to mention that when the trial balance shtet, working account for the year, and other ac conts were placed before your directors they took considerable trouble and pains to go into were instructed to give a detailed, analysis of the various items-such as wages and salaries, charges, stores, etc., to see in what direction economy might be made in the working di tha Company. An exhaustiva report was accord. ingly drawn up by the agents and has had the whatever direction, where economy, can be careful consideration of your directors, and in

practised without sacrificing "efficiency" you may depend upon your directors avalling them selvas of the opportunity. Gentlemen, the above careful inquiries only [helped to corro

BANK LINE, LIMITED. Dr. Austin D. frvloe, of Canada, saye!” “I have used it in cases where cod liver oil

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES. was indicated but could not be taken by the.

STEAMSHIP GYMERIC patient, and the results following were very gratifying." It is effective from the first dose FROM SEATTLE, VICTORIA, VANCOU and agreas with the most sensitive and nervous stomachs. It cannot deceive or disappoint you,

VER, YOKOHAMA, KOBE, MOJI:

AND MANILA. and comes to the rescue of those who have received no benefit from any other treatment. Watch carefully against imitations." Sold by chemists throughout the world.

In "the watch making trade "at: Coventry female labour is increasing, both absolutely and relatively. Boys will not serve the required apprenticeship in the trade, as they can get bigbar wages in the motor and cycle industries, where apprenticeship is not required. Thus girls, taken from school, are brought into the factory at 44, a week, rising 10 1ős, by the time all the items of expenditure, and, the agents It stands for the medicinal triumphs of the age send in their Bills of Lading for countersigna

they are 24-Im ono watch factory the men were found to be only 12 per cent. of the total number employed,

AN ACTIVE COMPETITION.

The commission also finds women and girls employed very largely in the industries of Birmingham and the Potteries. In the Potteries

women are now actively ip competition with. mals labours and, as they are able to do similar work for lower wages, they are gradual ly driving men from certain sections of the

trade.

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"Examples such as these, from special trades and in particular places, might be multiplied indefinitely, and we can scarcely worder at the displacing men in the general labour market." generalization so often made that women are The report mentions that in Dunded-where, at the last census, jule employed about 40 par cent. of the total employed popolation over 10 years of age, and where 77 per cent of the operatives over 10 were women-the saying is that among the tower grades of labour, the wife wosks; the man'bojle the kettle."

The report, however, asserts that, on the whole, there seems no foundation for any such generalisation; pa the contrary, the reports of the last three censuses indicate that women are obtaining a smaller, not a larger, proportion of the aggregate employment, although it in right to say that the greater part of the decreased

ACCESSORIES propertien of occupied females has, occurred

AND

REPAIRS OUTFIT.

DEPOT, KOWLOON.“

DRAGON CYCLE

DEPOT,

HEAD OFFICE and SHOW ROOMS,

in what, is by far the largest of the wage: earning occupations of women-domestic ser vice.

SOME MALE PRISERVES. "To summarise the statistics of the memo modum referred to (prepared for the Commis

for at the Board of Trade), about four-fifths of the occupied male population are engaged in employments which they monopolies de in which women are a negligible factor as regards possible competition, suck as agriculture mining, áshing, building, transport, wood, ga and water, and the staple metal and machine making tradės, all of which are virtually male preserver. Only one-fifth of the males are en gaged in trades where.wonien enter to the ex- tent of one per cant. of the whole sumber of occupied females, Wemen are making the largest actual and relative advance la commer cial, professional, and public employments,

and in the chemical and food industries, -

WOMEN CLEXKS.

borate and support the opinion of your directori with regard to the running of two separate ico our poor results is due to the opposition of the companies in Shanghai. The reason then of Oriental Ice Company, We have had to sell the Oriental Ice Company claim that they can ice at a price that does not pay us, and though sell at these low prices and show a profit, 1 perennally am very doubtful. Lastly, a most- importantfact that I wish to bring to your notice,

that in your directors' opinion there is not room for two ice, companies in Shaughal where the consumption of ice in any substantial quad- fily goes on for only about four months in the ice, Cold Storage and Refrigeration Company, year. The company we represent, the Shanghai always have been, and are now, fully able to supply all the demands for machine made ice. originating from Shanghai, and why-it-was- thonghi necessary or politic to start an opposi

HONGKONG GYMKHANA CLUB.

'HE ANNUAL

MEETING

at the bave CLUB will be held on THURSDAY, the 25th fast, at the Rooms of the JOCKEY OLUB, Hongkong Club Appaxe, at 5 P.M.

C. G. MAOKIE,

Hom, Sec. & Treasurer. Hongkong, 19th March, 1929.

THE above Steamer having arrived, Cod. signees of Cargo are hereby requested to" ture and to take immediate delivery of their Goods from alongside.

Cargo impeding the discharge of the Vessel will be landed and stored at. Consignees' risk and expense. A

No Fire Insurance will be effected by us in Any case whatever.

DODWELL & CO, LIMITED, Agents,

Hongkong, 15th March 1909,

NOTICE TO CONSIGNEES,

Tay THE P. & O. 8. N. Co.'s Steamer

"DELHI

PAEST BREWING COMPANY,

MILWAUKEE

FRESH SUPPLIES ALWAYS KEPT IN STOCK

------ BY' SIRUSSEN & Co. Agents for HONAKONG & SOUTH; CHANA, Hosakang, 20th July, tony:

FURNITURE WAREHOUSE,

FROM BOMBAY, COLOMBO AND STRAITS,

Coalgates of Cargo by the above-named vessal are hereby informed that their Goods are being landed and placed at their risk in the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf and Godown Company's Godowns at Kowloon, where each. consignment will be sorted-out-marie by mark, and delivery can be obtained as soon as the Goods are landed.

This vessel brings on Cargo -

From London, &c. ex S.S. Mongolia

From Australia, ex S.5. Moollan

Frein Calcutta, er 5.5. Símia,

From Persian Gulf, er B.IS.N. and B, &

P.S. N. Co.'s Steamers.

tien I do not know. I may add that the Chinese LI KWONG LOONG & CO., instructions are given to the contrary before

GABINET-MAKERS AND ART DECORATORS,

CARE AND from Shanghal, bas re-opened their FURNITURE STORE

No. 39, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL,

only Shop in Hongkong, with this name.

ice dealers continan toʻgather and sell ice as in former years, notwithstanding the very low price charged both by ourselves and the Oriental Ice Coy. Our future course of aciloò will, and must be, of course dependent on cir cumstances, and I would ask the shareholders- to leave their interest to be looked after by your directors. On safarting to the report you will observe that the debit balance to be carried for. The ward to next year's account is Taels 1,104.25, but in view of the poor results of last year your Directors are desirous of foregoing their fees for that period which will bring down the debit balance to be carried forward to Taels. 354-15 Cleb, Hongkong Hotel, Telegraph Co., Have been patronised by the Hongkong, Gentlemen, I have nothing-further to say. Be-Messrs. A. S. Watson & Co., Firms and other fore asking you to pase the accounts I shall be leading Establishments in the Colony, to them to the beat of my ability. pleased, to answer any questions concerning whom reference can be made as to the.

Superior Workmanship and Materials of the Forniture, &c, «applied, "":

be

the Directors, therefore be would propose as an amendment to the resolution that the matter re mein in abeyance until the next annual mest Ing.

HERE HIGH-CLASS FURNITURE of every description can be made to arder le any design required.

Mann, A. 5: Watson- & Co., Ltd., write is follows:

"

"We have pleasure in stating that Mr. LI \\,KWONG LOONG formidled the Annexe la our Dispensary and gave us every satis- faction,"

(5d.) A. S. WATSON & Co.

Optional Goods will be landed here unless

6 hour

Goods not cleared by the 24th instant, at . | 4.7.M., will be subject to rent.

No Fire Insurance will be effected by me in any case whatever; 1

Damaged Packages must be left in the Godowns for examination by the Consignee's and the Company's representative, at an appolated hos

All Claims must be presented within ten days of the steamer's arrival here after which die they cannot be recognised,

No Claims will he admitted after the Gooda have left the Godowns.

E. A, HEWETT,

Superintendent, Honoring, 18th March, rong.

S.S. "CALEDONIEN."

COMPAGNIE DES MESSAGERIES MARITIMES.

C

ex

NOTICE TO CONSIGNÉES,

“ONSIGNEES of Carge from London ex 6.1. Corduan and Madoc, from Havra ORDERS punctually attended to, and Medoc, and from Bordeaux ex s... Ville de

Dunkerque, in connection with above Steamer - CHARGES most moderate.

are hereby informed that their Goods, with the

· AN INSPECTION INVITED. exception of Opium, Treasure and Valuables.

are being landed and stored at their risk into 144 the basardous and/or extra hazardous Godawns of the Hongkong and Kowloon Wharf, and Codowa Co., Limited, at Kowloon, whence delivery may be obtained immediately after landing.

the directors should forego their fees. It would *. Mr. J. H. Osborne said he did not sen why

best to let the matter remain in abeyance for "Is. clerking it seems at first sight as if the the time being. The result of the year's work obvious increase in women typists, nic, involving was to be deplored, but it was no fault of ed displacement of men, but the fact seems to be that the number of men so employed it rapidly lacressing and that their proportionate advance, compared with population,' is faster than that of women."

The conclusion of the report in that, while The Chairman said he was much obliged for 33-36, Des Vœux Road, Central, many industries in which the specialisation of women and juveniles are now engaged in

the kind remarks made but if the company paid | machinery enables them to take part, they are next year; or they smashed up the other com- not in quy considerable trade or process dispanles, a resolution could be brought fofward placing adult males in the case that they are regarding the fees. The directors were, how. * Pengkono, 6th Argent, (Kof being more largely employed to do work over, much obliged for what had bona mid. identical with that formerly done by men,

"The great expansion of women's labour. seems to have been in new Gelds of employ: ment, or is felds which men, never occupiedi

#1t should also be borne in mind that, ever when women are employed where man used to be employed, this is largely due to the mes going into more highly-paid industrion, Min- jog, michina-making, and building havayoff Late years attracted an abnormal number of men and boys"

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The Chairman" then proposed, Mr. John Prentice seconded, and it was carried, that the report and sjatement of accounts for the year ended 30th November, 1908, as presented, be accepted and passed.

*-ME. W. B. Buyers proposed, Mr. T. Koch seconded, and it was carried, that Mr. Jas. H. Osborna be realected auditor to serve until the | next general meeting of the shareholders.tatt — Mi [...H,Osbornè proposed; Mr. W. B.Buyarı seconded, andˇit was carried, chut the election of. Mesara, W. S., Bome, and A. R. Lowa, ne Directors ba confirmed.;.

Thin being all the business of the meeting, the Chairman.thanked those prosent for their. attendance and the proceedings terminated.

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Optional Cargo will be forwarded on unisss Intimation is, received · from the Consignees before

requesting it to be

landed hore.

Bill of Lading will be countersigned by the Undersigned. Goods remaining unclaimed. After MONDAY, the sind March, at Noon, will be subject to rent and landing charges.

All claims manal-besentin to me on or before the stad March, or they will not ̧bil recog?" nired,

All damaged packages will be examined on MONDAY, the 2nd March, at 5,7.M.

No Fire Insurance has been effectod.

|_ P. DE CHAMPMORIN, Agent Hongkong..igih March. Foro,

COLD STORAGE.

HE HONGKONG ICE" COMPANY, THE 0,000 Cable fast of COLD STORAGE, avaliabis at HAST POINT, Stores will be Open at 10 AM, and 4 XM.

Ally Sunday excepted, to receive and dalyst- serishable goods/

С.К. НАХТом,

Hongkong, 6th Jan